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I'm surprised there are cosplayers that don't want their picture taken. Isn't the whole point to dress up as something flashy and cool and having fun?
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Yeah, but that doesn't mean they want their picture all over the Internet. A buddy of mine dressed up as the Condesce and she fuckin' rocked it. I am jealous of her ability to pull off giant horns and a bodysuit.
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Mar 5, 2013 05:03
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Aint the same if the cant identify herself as a Sea Hitler Troll.
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Mar 5, 2013 05:05
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JT Jag posted:Are you literally the guy from letmetellyouabouthomestuck.jpg No, but I saw some things there that gave me a very similar expression. (none of them homestuck related.)
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Mar 5, 2013 05:19
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Yeah, I have to say that as much as I love Homestuck I'd be embarrassed at the idea of photos of me being extremely publicly nerdy floating around. It's understandable to want to try and keep those lives separate. Alternatively go as a costume with great plausible deniability - I love the photos I've seen that include someone dressing up as the security guy from letmetellyouabouthomestuck.jpg and roleplaying their disgust.
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Mar 5, 2013 06:35
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On an unrelated topic, Homestuck has just given me a great moment of culture shock: Found a new liveblog, reading through it. All is normal. Get to Rose entering the game and the reader does an audio react. And it's some young girl from a non-English speaking country. Maybe Japanese? She apologizes for her English. And then proceeds to make all these meme-y references. I don't think I was ready to know that "Like a boss" and "Gotta go fast" had reached across the ocean.
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Mar 5, 2013 06:47
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It's the internet, so i dunno why you're surprised. lovely memes are basically international!
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Mar 5, 2013 07:59
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Alright, the 4th has passed, time for updates now. WHERE'S MY COMIC, ANDREW? Man. Hussie lied, Nepeta died.
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Mar 5, 2013 08:30
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Dolash posted:Alternatively go as a costume with great plausible deniability - I love the photos I've seen that include someone dressing up as the security guy from letmetellyouabouthomestuck.jpg and roleplaying their disgust.
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Mar 5, 2013 08:37
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Bobulus posted:On an unrelated topic, Homestuck has just given me a great moment of culture shock: So... what's the liveblog?
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Fucknag posted:Alright, the 4th has passed, time for updates now. WHERE'S MY COMIC, ANDREW? He just flew across the country and probably crashed the gently caress out when he got home.
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Speaking of Homestuck cosplayers, apparently there are some people who really don't like them. "Homestuck Hunters" made moves on Facebook and the like to go to Phoenix Comicon in May, and "hunt" for Homestuck cosplayers, because ... they don't like them and think too many cosplayers like Homestuck ... ? I guess? And they were going to ... do something bad to the Homestuck cosplayers at the local nerd prom? There have been a few posts to the affirmative on the Facebook page, but the directive at the top is, THIS IS YOUR PSYCHOTIC MUTHAFUCKING CAPTAIN SPEAKING!!! BRING YOUR HATRED FOR THE HOMESTUCK AND ALL OF YOUR KILLING TOOLS!!! THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE HELL OF A HUNT!!! Which is all sort of Gamzee. So maybe this is supposed to be ironic. But the PCC organizers are not having it. Phoenix Comicon posted:We are aware of the “Homestuck Hunters” and are working with the Phoenix Convention Center and the City of Phoenix police department’s Community Response Team to investigate and monitor this group. The Community Response Team is a specialized section of the Phoenix PD that handles any threats, protests, and/or demonstrations. They monitor all Facebook and other social media activity of various groups with regards to demonstrations, threats, and/or protests.
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Dorroile posted:It's the internet, so i dunno why you're surprised. lovely memes are basically international! Well, I was under the impression that a lot of this stuff stayed regional, to be honest. There's probably all sorts of things we've never even heard about. Like, that Geddan fad that I barely know about, but I'm sure is as overplayed in Japan as All Your Base is here. Plus it is super-fascinating for me when I find international Homestuck readers, because a lot of the gags rely on old american pop culture (Nic Cage, for example) that seems like it has a low percentage of being known overseas. If you've never heard of the Sims, it seems like Act 1 would be a lot weirder to you. Samovar posted:So... what's the liveblog? http://mereadinghomestuck.tumblr.com/
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Bobulus posted:Plus it is super-fascinating for me when I find international Homestuck readers, because a lot of the gags rely on old american pop culture (Nic Cage, for example) that seems like it has a low percentage of being known overseas. If you've never heard of the Sims, it seems like Act 1 would be a lot weirder to you. That doesn't seem like THAT much of a barrier, considering how Americanized the world is, post-internet! I mean I guess a bunch of people in Japan and China and poo poo might be confused by some of the things, but American pop culture is way more ubiquitous than you'd think. Or at least it is here in Norway? I'm kind of assuming the rest of Western/Northern and probably Eastern Europe is the same. The only things that really puzzled the poo poo outta me at the time are some of the more obscure celebrities like Bing Crosby or that Terry Kiser guy. But poo poo like the Sims is probably pretty recognized in most first-world countries. e: Yeah, Betty Crocker is also a thing that I wasn't aware of, though I think it might be a Thing in, like... Oslo, or other bigger cities, so it might just be me. Everyone on the internet knows about Juggalos though, and if you're posting on SA you should know who Guy Fieri is. (the man who ruined egg eat) Freak Futanari fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Mar 5, 2013 |
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I'm in the UK and there were a few things I just didn't recognise. Like fruit gushers, or Betty Crocker as a company in general, though I did notice that apparently they sell pancake mix over here now but only around Pancake Day. I had no clue what juggalos were, or ICP in general pre-Homestuck. And I didn't know who Guy Fieri was, though his shows are on TV over here, just only on specialist digital stations so that's more of a gap in my own pop-cultural knowledge than anything else. I wouldn't be surprised about any real mainstream holywood stuff, american movies are shown all over the globe.
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Mar 5, 2013 15:27
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J.theYellow posted:Speaking of Homestuck cosplayers, apparently there are some people who really don't like them. I would have just made a reference to "The Most Dangerous Game" and been done with it as an ironic thing. But then I sorta doubt that Homestucks are all that dangerous to begin with.
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Mar 5, 2013 16:41
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Prison Warden posted:I did notice that apparently they sell pancake mix over here now but only around Pancake Day. Pancake Day? Please tell me it's a national holiday where everyone gets the day off, there are parades honoring pancakes, pancake costumes, and so on. It can't be any other way.
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thanks alot assbag posted:Pancake Day? Please tell me it's a national holiday where everyone gets the day off, there are parades honoring pancakes, pancake costumes, and so on. It can't be any other way. Shrove Tuesday is Pancake Day. (There's also crêpe day on Candlemas.)
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Bobulus posted:Well, I was under the impression that a lot of this stuff stayed regional, to be honest. There's probably all sorts of things we've never even heard about. Like, that Geddan fad that I barely know about, but I'm sure is as overplayed in Japan as All Your Base is here. America ------------"the sea"-----------places where they don't speak English or know Nic Cage We've done it, we now have a complete picture of earth.
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A good poster posted:He just flew across the country and probably crashed the gently caress out when he got home. Yes I was being facetious. Any opportunity for a dead Nepeta joke, though.
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J.theYellow posted:Speaking of Homestuck cosplayers, apparently there are some people who really don't like them.
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JT Jag posted:I think that most of the hatred of Homestuck fans just comes from the weirdness inherent in the fandom: the cosplaying as trolls with grey facepaint, the esoteric in-jokes that make no goddamn sense out of context. Homestuck fans appear to be more visibly strange than a lot of other fandoms, though I suspect it has just about the same whackjob to normal person ratio as any other fandom. I suspect it's also the runaway popularity of the thing and the fact that it's not one of the usual channels for something to blow up in the convention/cosplay set. You tend to get animation, manga, maybe video games getting that big - webcomics, not so much, so a lot of the same cosplay die-hards who eagerly digest every one of the hot-pressed fresh animes weren't "in the loop" for Homestuck. It's also gotten so big and has so much cross-penetration that troll cosplayers have invaded anime cons which ostensibly have nothing to do with webcomic fans at all. Basically, it's reactionary nonsense that appears to be a combination of "agh! I hate new thing!" and "ragh! I hate popular thing!".
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Android Blues posted:Basically, it's reactionary nonsense that appears to be a combination of "agh! I hate new thing!" and "ragh! I hate popular thing!". So something like hipster Luddites, only instead of protesting the Industrial Revolution, they're protesting people... dressing up as characters they've never heard of?
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There's no homestuck conventions, so instead they go to inappropriate cons and make up a statistically disproportionate amount of the attendees despite a scarcity of homestuck related attractions, panels, and discussions. So, with a lot of the con of minimal interest to them, they have to make their own amusements, usually in the already crowded hallways. Surprise, this makes them clash with the preexisting convention going social structures. Honestly, there should just be homestuck cons at this point, or at least homestuck centric panels/ballrooms. It's certainly popular enough.
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It's a little silly to say that Homestuck doesn't belong at conventions when it's basically one part dumbass tween fightin' mans anime mixed with two parts of those scenes from Evangelion where it's a bunch of people sitting motionless in a badly lit room with voiceovers yapping about how incredibly teenaged they are.
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JT Jag posted:I think that most of the hatred of Homestuck fans just comes from the weirdness inherent in the fandom: the cosplaying as trolls with grey facepaint, the esoteric in-jokes that make no goddamn sense out of context. Homestuck fans appear to be more visibly strange than a lot of other fandoms, though I suspect it has just about the same whackjob to normal person ratio as any other fandom. I think part of it also is that Homestuck fans tend to skew younger than other 'established' fandoms, yet for some reason still go out to conventions in higher numbers. So you've got the obnoxiousness of youth and inexperience of what's acceptable behaviour at cons/large gatherings. Also it's probably easier to throw together a shirt, horns and slap on some grey face paint for a troll costume than it is to make a costume for a lot of other works. So the... Naruto fandom (or whatever) might have a cosplay rate of 0.2, while the Homestuck fandom approaches would be 0.7 (or whatever I don't know), so the fandom's more visible, and gets more scrutiny.
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Seoinin posted:It's a little silly to say that Homestuck doesn't belong at conventions when it's basically one part dumbass tween fightin' mans anime mixed with two parts of those scenes from Evangelion where it's a bunch of people sitting motionless in a badly lit room with voiceovers yapping about how incredibly teenaged they are. The thing is, the most of the fights in Homestuck are as un-anime as you can get. They're short, fast, brutal and have zero dialogue. Very few of the fights are drawn out and even those ones are loving short.
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Mazerunner posted:Also it's probably easier to throw together a shirt, horns and slap on some grey face paint for a troll costume than it is to make a costume for a lot of other works. So the... Naruto fandom (or whatever) might have a cosplay rate of 0.2, while the Homestuck fandom approaches would be 0.7 (or whatever I don't know), so the fandom's more visible, and gets more scrutiny. To be fair, all that gray paint seems pretty darn annoying to deal with. Like, seriously, could you imagine.
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Dorroile posted:To be fair, all that gray paint seems pretty darn annoying to deal with. Like, seriously, could you imagine. That's the biggest individual complaint I've heard about homestuck cosplayers. A lot of first time cosplayers go as a troll, put on gray facepaint and don't seal it. You get gray smudges all over everything.
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Tunicate posted:That's the biggest individual complaint I've heard about homestuck cosplayers. A lot of first time cosplayers go as a troll, put on gray facepaint and don't seal it. You get gray smudges all over everything. All I can think of is the blue paint left everywhere by Tobias in Arrested Development. Given that Homestuck has referenced it before, that seem pretty appropriate.
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Most people don't like Homestuck at cons because of the gray paint and a number of obnoxious fans. Said obnoxious fans tend to be very obnoxious teenagers, who can't seem to realize that they are not the only ones who matter in a convention with thousands of people attending. You probably look at homestuck con horror stories and think "no way that happened!" but it does. I went to a convention in the DC area recently and recall walking through a very crowded area of the center. One girl who was cosplaying Homestuck just stopped in the middle of the walkway and sat down, leaving dozens of people behind her having to walk around. This area was crowded but there were some benches around it that she could have sat on that were free. But nope, she just had to stop where she was and sit down. The reason? I heard her muttering about a Condesce cosplayer that was nearby and just felt the need to sit down in the middle of the crowded area to awe at them. No joke. Anyways the things people say as to why Homestuck shouldn't be allowed are usually silly. Like how you shouldn't cosplay Homestuck because you're at an anime convention and Homestuck isn't an anime. See that would make sense, but then you better not allow people to cosplay from DC comics, Marvel comics, Adventure Time and so on and so forth, if you're going to push the "anime purity" issue at an anime con. The grey makeup being left smeared in hotels, on walls and even on other people's costumes? That's a different story completely.
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lotus circle posted:Like how you shouldn't cosplay Homestuck because you're at an anime convention and Homestuck isn't an anime. Is that why the fandom has produced so much material for a fake "Homestuck: the Anime" thing?
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I've seen troll cosplay at Scarborough Faire, man. Homestuck people will dress up if it's a place with people.
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Mystic Mongol posted:There's no homestuck conventions, so instead they go to inappropriate cons and make up a statistically disproportionate amount of the attendees despite a scarcity of homestuck related attractions, panels, and discussions. So, with a lot of the con of minimal interest to them, they have to make their own amusements, usually in the already crowded hallways. Surprise, this makes them clash with the preexisting convention going social structures. For some reason this gave me the mental picture of "The Homestuck Ball", a formal event.
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Cat Mattress posted:Is that why the fandom has produced so much material for a fake "Homestuck: the Anime" thing? And yes there have been actual Homestuck proms. Like organized in person proms. I wish I was making this up.
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Dorroile posted:Specialized Homestuck cons would be pretty fun, I think.
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JT Jag posted:Honestly enough webcomics have gotten big enough that you could just do a general Webcomic Con. Live in CT where our best locally hosted Cons are basically that. ConnectiCon! With all of your favorite webcomic book artists!
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JT Jag posted:Honestly enough webcomics have gotten big enough that you could just do a general Webcomic Con. If only there were some sort of con for all comics. A "Con Comic" if you will...
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